Quotes About Nature

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.